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All the Sweet Green Icing Flowing Down

McArthur Park is the story of his broken heart

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Image created by the Author with Bing and Dall-E AI It’s a cake, left in a park in the rain. The icing is beginning to dribble down the sides and on to the platter as the cake starts to collapse in the rain. A girl in a yellow dress, with long black hair and carrying a basket, is walking away from the cake. The cake has been cut and one large slice removed.
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Random Word Drabble Challenge Day 9 Word is Dribble

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Jimmy Webb is one of the greatest songwriters ever. Impulsive and emotional, he says, “Whatever was going on inside me would bubble out of the piano and onto paper.”

Bubble! Never dribble! Not a word or three at a time, to be drawn like blood from a stone. He inspires a pantsy like me — who hears the words throbbing in my heart and veins before I can get a pen in hand.

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McArthur Park is the story of his broken heart, as is By the Time I Get To Phoenix. When a master answers a challenge, we stand in awe.

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